resume one's birth name
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzYou have divorced or ended your civil partnership and would like to change your name? If your maiden name or name before marriage or civil partnership was not your family name (married name or partnership name), you have the following options:
- You can revert to your maiden name or the name you used until your married name was determined.
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You may prefix or append the following names to the married name:
- Your maiden name or
- the name used at the time of the declaration on the determination of the married name.
- You can discard a companion name prefixed or appended during the marriage.
If you are widowed or legally divorced, you can take back your birth name or the name you used until your married name was determined.
The legal force of the divorce decree can be recognized by the fact that a note of legal force (usually in the form of a stamp) was affixed by the competent local court, usually a few weeks after the divorce decree was issued.
Please hand in the declaration of recapture at the registry office of your main place of residence. From there it will be forwarded to your marriage registry office. It becomes effective upon receipt at the registry office of your place of marriage. Upon request, you will receive a certificate from there confirming your new name.
For further information, please contact our office.